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Show BPOmiGHT 1 Pvy Gran f land Rice il;: R M-r'- R8 sten BA,Jj LIMFJUCK. W Scolstar c ' r'""J' JHJk's Instance, K,man has wuuDj.-d tuy t nd Thanks- aBrKUl lh'-- drama, for Pr contcsu aro now fc0" "e-htly. The M ?,Vi "l Wahingt..n be lat7ar.t1 an,J Pr'n' -ta?y ruVak tMnfe'B V th Br Sh0U,d haV Mt'-nVthr, y ,bu"y enou8h fcmei,t''1 alC WUI necd X a& fKP aalMt N. Y r o, 1?a" mother flno ,1 l1:it arc hard to Wraiy"01 Nebraska on :Kf4 t "b'tl V" 8hould uthff tin" counlr'j IF1 'n dRt!f?,,,up, 0ne hand Weh th. ut forty-oight n-Jts his r M ni recent antics i nd utterances ho will be the smartest Senegalese in the world's hlBtory If he doesn't come over here at all. Slkl will never get to Uoropaey, for the simple reason that there are at least four or five men In the way that he can never pass Wills, Grub, Gibbons, Gib-bons, Tunney, Johnson, and probably "Rid" Norfolk. ASKING WHY "Each season," writes H. 1. H.. ' there are many hundred football stars who are big, fast. game, skillful, capable of taking and giving punishment punish-ment Many of these weigh rfom 195 to 210 pounds Why is It, then, Hint With a million at stake, tin ring can't develop but one great heavyweight within periods of from three to six or seven years? One might think that at least there would be four or five v. ho were good enough to make an even match with any or.o. Is boxing on. of the. most intricate of all the sciences?" It looks that way. Tkd colleges have gone in for amateur boxing, with anv number of big game, fast athletes, none of whom has even approached! one of the average heavyweights In skill The best college boxor developed In the last five years would have little "t QO show against Gibbons, Tunney or Greb. much less Iempsey. To reach the heights one must have so many thinge Iron flat and Iron jaw. speed, power, strength, science, the knack, abllty to take a lot and rlvo still more., lightning reaction, etc. that room for only one at a time Is left. imagine the excitement if one box-.ng box-.ng period t-hou'd develop a Dempaey, I a Jeffries, a Johnson and a Flti:-! Flti:-! I Simmons with in elimination contest ! I under way. First downs, once the leading lest I in the old game, do not mean so , much today. They are still useful, , but not all Important. Elevens have been constantly making more tirst downs an.j then losing. Centre and Syracuse made twice as many as I their opponents lust week, but Har- vard and Pittsburg won. |